MODERN BIOLOGY 497 



As a matter of fact, Herbert Spencer himself lived to see the future of 

 the world darkened. The march of militarism, which he hated, went on 

 apace towards the close of the century; the colonization of tropical countries, 

 of which he also disapproved, was carried still further afield; while social- 

 ism, with its State production, must necessarily have been equally distaste- 

 ful to him. And even philosophy began in his lifetime to strike along paths 

 other than those he had marked out. But though his ideas are now for the 

 most part out of date, he will always be remembered as one of the most per- 

 sistent, disinterested, and courageous champions of the theory of evolution. 



